Field TYPE attribute

When Defining fields and tags, the field's Type attribute is usually set to Any content. When exporting fields to XML, however, you may refine your field type specification by choosing one of these options from the drop-down Type list:

Option	TYPE attribute
Any content	ANY
Alphabetic	ALPH
Alphanumeric	ALNUM
Numeric	NUM
Decimal	DEC
Currency	CUR
DateDMY	DMY
DateMDY	MDY
DateYMD	YMD
Phone	TEL
Email	EML
URL	URL
Graphic	GRA

Technical note:

When exporting a field of type 'Graphic' to XML, you may choose to output the field as an image in PNG format, see Outputting to XML. The attributes for such a field are:

TYPE="GRA" ENCODING="BASE64" FILETYPE="PNG" X="x coordinate" Y="y coordinate"

BITS="colour depth" WIDTH="image width" HEIGHT="image height"